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My configuration

Edit -> Preferences -> Editing -> Automatically turn "CamelCase" words into links -> uncheck
Edit -> Preferences -> Editing -> Automatically turn filepaths into links

navigate to a page

<Ctrl><Space> <Ctrl>f

How it works:

<Ctrl><Space> - switch to the side pane
<Ctrl>f - Search in the page list

Prerequisites:

<Control><Space> shortcut has to be enabled the very first time.

Edit -> Preferences
-> Use <Control><Space> to switch to the side pane -> Check

why zim

I use Zim because:

Zim : (vim, notepad++) :: book : page :: “collection of documents” : “single document” :: directory : file
- For example, you can have links in one page that point to another page. But all the pages belong to a single notebook.
Files are stored in plain text
- can be stored in git
- easy to backup
Open source
Written in python
Works in both Linux and Windows.

Starting zim in windows

For | 0.68

Create a batch file, zim.bat

$ cat ~/Desktop/zim.bat
"C:\Users\kkusuman\Desktop\Zim Desktop Wiki Portable\zim.exe"

Then double click the zim.bat icon on the desktop.

Old instructions:

<Todo:- Add the version number if this is still relevant or delete this entry>

Create a batch file, zim.bat

start \Path\to\Zim\ZimDesktopWikiPortable.exe --standalone

Now open windows explorer and type the path of the batch script in the address bar. This will launch zim.

Link to files

tags | link to a file

On windows:

file:///C:/path/to/the/file

Ref:- https://zim-wiki.org/manual/Help/Links.html → “File Links” section

links I came across

Releases - https://github.com/zim-desktop-wiki/zim-desktop-wiki/releases
zim wiki code repository - https://github.com/jaap-karssenberg/zim-desktop-wiki/

http://zim-wiki.org/manual/Help/Key_Bindings.html - key board shortcuts in zim

http://wiki.ordi49.fr/doku.php/en:tech:dev:around_zim_desktop - talks about porting zim notebooks between Linux and Windows environments.

zim wiki community documentation - https://github.com/jaap-karssenberg/zim-wiki/wiki

To find out What is new in the latest zim version - https://github.com/jaap-karssenberg/zim-desktop-wiki/blob/master/CHANGELOG.txt

scroll bar

I found that the scroll bar stops working intermittently. To work around this, try scrolling right on the scroll bar. Once this is done, the scroll bar works both on the scroll bar and on the window.

check later

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3703 - Syntax highlighting in vim for zim wiki pages

table of contents plugin

My favorite configuration

Position in the window: Left Side Pane
uncheck - Show Toc as floating widget instead of in sidepane
check - Show the page title heading in the ToC

Table of Contents